RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4143, 1 July 1874, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.

Tuesday, June 30. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., R.M.) Drunkenness. —AVm. Barry, John Bums, AVilliam Benard, James Smith, and John McLeod, all charged with being drunk, and the last named with indecent exposure, were fined, the first three ss. each, or twenty-four hours’ imprisonment, and the remainder 105.,. or forty-eight hours. ■Breach or the Railway By-Laws.—Frank Mountain was charged with this offence ; the particulars of the charge being that the defendant made use of insulting and blasphemous language on the public platform. Fined Is. and coats.

Breach of the Municipalities Act.—S. J. Hill was charged by the police with this offence, the complaint being that defendant blocked up the thoroughfare on the wharf until his express for an unreasonable time, without having an order for the carriage of goods. Mr. Buckley appeared for the defence. Fined ss. and costs.

Threatening Language.— Louis_ CMlson, a Norwegian, was charged with haring, on the 2‘ith instant, used threatening language to Ellen Anderson, a Dane. The services of an interpreter had to be procured in this case, as neither of the parties engaged in it could speak English in an intelligible form. The_ evidence of the complainant showed that Cbilson had made useof very insulting and obscene language, and shook a bottle at her iu a threatening manner. She admitted having thrown a dog of the defendant’s down stairs in anything but a gentle manner. Defendant was bound over to keep the peace for six months in his own recognizance of £lO. CIVIL CASES. South v. Bedding.—Claim for £1 4s. 6d, balance due on purchase of a byciclc, and interest on amount. Order for £3 17s. 6d, and costs. , Crawford v. Schwartz. —Claim for £*2i- 17s. Bd. This was a disputed account on the sale of a number of articles from plaintiff to defendant, on some of which the latter claimed commission and guarantee; a portion of the account was admitted, and £l2 2s. paid into Court. The disputed items were a parcel of saddlery, which had been consigned to defendant for sale on commission, but afterwards, by bis own instructions, debited to himself, and which he now claimed to have sold to himself, charging commission on same ; a reduction owing to wrong weight in the invoice of a quantity of bacon; the difference of Cd. per owt. iu sale of some shells, and storage charges. After a deal of evidence had been taken, an order for £8 Cs. 4d., in addition to that paid into Court, and costs, was made.